Creative Quotes · Page 99

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Doing something that's physical but not necessarily mentally taxing - for me, it frees me up creatively.

— Mark Lanegan

I don't have to just have one kind of life. I can have several different creative lives.

— Rostam Batmanglij

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

— Francine Prose

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed…

— Margaret Mead

I love being part of a creative process, so having a band to work with is perfect for me.

— Syd

Creation, like destruction, always seems to get a little out of hand; otherwise it could hardly be called creative.

— Babs Deal

I've spread my legs in the backseat in a creative sense quite a few times.

— Stephen King

With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse.

— Deepak Chopra

I think it's really important as a creative director, to always keep your ears on the ground and always surround yourself with…

— Nicole Richie

I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing - I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have…

— Robert Morgan

The process of creativity, absorbing aspects of life and channeling it into something shared or tangible - that's my ideal brain food.…

— Richard Norris

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted…

— Berenice Abbott

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done…

— Ric Ocasek

The field of creativity that exists within each individual is freed by moving out of ideas of wrong-doing or right-doing. If we…

— Angeles Arrien

We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a…

— Immanuel Kant

Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act of the Creative Imagination. ... For prayer is not a request for something: it…

— Henry Corbin

But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the…

— Brenda Ueland

“Everyone lives in two worlds,” Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studied her letters. “There’s the real…

— Joe Hill

Hearing, seeing and understanding each other, humanity from one end of the earth to the other now lives simultaneously, omnipresent like a…

— Stefan Zweig

The more authentic you become, the more genuine in your expression, particularly regarding personal experiences and even self-doubts, the more people can…

— Stephen Covey

I'm not Pollyanna - I know that my personality and my opinions and how I approach the teaching of writing maybe isn't…

— Tod Goldberg

Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or…

— Robert Moss

I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about…

— Abbie Cornish

Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.

— Tim O'Reilly

Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.

— Sean Penn

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

— Queen Elizabeth II

Today's consumerism has changed things. I think children are much less creative now.

— Giovanna Cau

I draw creative juices from everywhere. I'm so visually inspired. I would watch old movies a lot to get inspiration for clothes.

— Cindy Meehl

I was always interested in dance as a creative art and traditionally dance is taught as an interpretive art.

— Jack Waters

I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.

— Alexander Wang

Consciousness is the creative element in the universe. Without it, nothing would appear.

— Fred Alan Wolf

I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.

— Jackie Evancho

Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.

— Ken Robinson

Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of…

— Debbie Ford

This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.

— Barbara Smith

Creative satisfaction is highly underrated. When you don't have it, the money doesn't spend nearly as well.

— Sean Waltman

I wouldn't take on the project unless I could have complete creative control in casting.

— Craig Brewer